| Description |
1 online resource (x, 365 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Basic bioethics |
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Basic bioethics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the ethics of protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke -- New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson -- Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. Bedau and Mark Triant -- The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor -- The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily C. Parke and Mark A. Bedau -- A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin -- Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodié -- The creation of life in cultural context : from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer -- Second life : some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth -- Protocell patents : property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage -- Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel -- The ambivalence of protocells : challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche-Tangen -- Open evolution and human agency : the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf -- Human practices : interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- This is not a hammer : on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris -- Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller -- Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks and ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material. |
| Subject |
Artificial cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Biotechnology -- ethics.
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Cell Proliferation -- ethics.
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Bioethical Issues.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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| Added Author |
Bedau, Mark.
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Parke, Emily C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ethics of protocells. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009 9780262012621 0262012626 (DLC) 2008041190 (OCoLC)256533952 |
| Standard No. |
9786612240379 |
| ISBN |
9780262255301 (electronic bk.) |
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0262255308 (electronic bk.) |
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